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Cancer and caregiving: the impact on the caregiver’s health [PDF]
Psycho‐Oncology, 1998 A diagnosis of cancer affects not only the patient but also their significant others, especially when a lot of care tasks are involved. Some caregivers perceive the care as a burden, while others consider it a challenge. In this article, findings concerning the impact of cancer caregiving on informal caregivers will be described.
C, Nijboer +5 more
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Grief symptoms and primary care use: a prospective study of family caregivers
BJGP Open, 2020 Background: Family caregivers to patients who are severely ill have high use of primary health care and psychotropic medication. However, it remains sparsely investigated whether healthcare services target the most vulnerable caregivers.
Mette Kjærgaard Nielsen +4 more
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The caregiving phenomenon and caregiver participation in dementia [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2018 BackgroundDementia presents barriers to the collaboration between individuals and the healthcare system. Caregivers perform multiple functions helping patients with basic and instrumental activities but also communicating and mediating the dyads’ needs within the broader social group.
Maria Eriksdotter +6 more
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Strategies for Sustaining Self Used by Family Caregivers for Older Adults With Dementia [PDF]
, 2013 The negative health consequences of caring for an older adult family member with dementia are well documented. However, not all family caregivers experience these negative health consequences. The purposes of this study were to describe strategies family
Bull, Margaret J.
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Designing for Caregiving: Integrating Robotic Assistance in Senior Living Communities [PDF]
Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '22), June 13-17,
2022, Virtual Event, Australia, 2022 Robots hold significant promise to assist with providing care to an aging population and to help overcome increasing caregiver demands. Although a large body of research has explored robotic assistance for individuals with disabilities and age-related challenges, this past work focuses primarily on building robotic capabilities for assistance and has ...
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Knowledge on malaria among caregivers with children aged under 5 years at Kenyasi Health Center
Journal of Integrative Nursing, 2021 Background: Malaria remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children under 5 years old in many low- and middle-income countries.
Cecilia Ackon Ansong +3 more
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Care, Caregiving, and Caregivers [PDF]
Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 1995 Research and common knowledge maintain that women are the primary caregivers of children and thus are crucial to explaining care. Yet most conceptual paradigms guiding the analysis of care allow little room for examining who is caring for the caregiver.
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Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2021 BACKGROUND : The complex, multifaceted care environment and the threatening situation of caring for hemodialysis patients cause tension in their family caregivers.
Leili Rabiei +2 more
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Accuracy of Caregivers' Recollections of Caregiving Hassles [PDF]
The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 1998 Despite their common use in clinical settings, caregivers' recollections of the hassles they face in caregiving have not been examined in previous research. Ninety-seven spousal caregivers of persons with dementia were assessed for 6 consecutive months concerning caregiving hassles and numerous other issues.
John C. Cavanaugh, Jennifer M. Kinney
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Nursing Open, 2022 Aims To systematically identify, evaluate and synthesize the qualitative evidence on enteral nutrition of home caregivers. Design A qualitative evidence synthesis using the Sandelowski and Barroso methodology. Data Sources We reviewed articles from eight
Jingjing Mou +5 more
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